personal and professional musings from a Jesus-loving, center-right chica navigating life and faith in the ELCA ("takin' this bound conscience thing out for a test drive")

Monday, November 8, 2010

Things I Think I Think, Vol.III

I think G.K. Chesterton's writing style can best be described as "quirky."

I think that the lady I saw cut up a cold, hard-boiled egg and put it in the microwave at the hotel last month goes beyond "quirky."

I think I need to visit, in no particular order, Milwaukee, South Bend, Dallas, and Washington, D.C. I'm still not sold on Berkeley.

I think know that I am tired of October being hijacked by breast cancer awareness crap. As though there's any person alive who doesn't know that breast cancer exists. As a childhood cancer survivor, I would like to note that there are 2 classrooms full of kids diagnosed with cancer every day. You know how childhood cancer research gets funded? Lemonade stands. No, for real.

I think the commercial with the people doing the macarena in their snuggies is quite disturbing.

I've been thinking a lot lately about a patient of mine from CPE this summer who passed away. His family was with him when it happened, and for the entire week before. They were a great family, and he was a great person. The whole thing was beautifully sad, and I've just been missing them recently.

I think that "the more things change, the more they stay the same." Whenever I'm teaching confirmation class and getting a little frustrated with the kids goofing off or not paying attention, I realize that they're doing the exact same stuff my friends and I did when we were in confirmation. And then I have a lot more grace, I take a deep breath, and dive back in.

I think that I am confused as to how in the world it is almost Advent. Seriously, where did the time go?

I think that Scott Caan is a-freaking-dorable in the new Hawaii Five-O.

I think that I wish I had somebody around to talk theology with, just kick stuff around, you know?

About Me

I am a walking dialectic, so I suppose it's good that I'm a Lutheran. I'm into the Bible, geeky theology stuff, and staying up past my bedtime. I'm definitely "my own person" and I ask lots and lots of questions. I feel like I just wrote a personal ad.

Beautiful and Important

"The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy. For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross". ~ Colossians 1:15-20